Silver Editorials & Commentary

Current investing model favors bonds over equities, therefore, investors should overweigh their portfolios with bonds over stocks for safety. Cash is also a position for those who are un-invested or under invested until this model favors equities again.

Government employees get to do a lot of things that would land an ordinary citizen in prison. For example, it’s legal for them to threaten and commit offensive, rather than defensive, violence. They can take property from others without their consent. They spy on...

Silver is finally showing some signs of life after suffering a dark year. The epically-bearish sentiment that bludgeoned this metal to major secular lows is cracking, with a strong rebound rally now underway.

Companies that make, move or peddle real stuff -- think Alcoa, Walmart, Caterpillar -- are having a hard time of it lately, mostly because their products and/or their customers have become commoditized. Aluminum is aluminum wherever it comes from, cheap Chinese...

So how does it fell Mr. Euro to get smacked upside the head by your supposed caretaker? Mario Draghi must be taking lessons from the Bank of Japan because this is one of the best verbal whoopin’s I have seen put on a currency.

Again, the talking heads are claiming that there is a pattern that overtly implies that the Dow tends to follow the DAX. When the markets were free or had some elements of freedom in them, one could give some credence to these patterns, but today where fraud and...

It looks as if 2015 will turn out to be a record year for silver investment demand. Not only will total silver bullion demand be the highest in many decades, it will account for nearly one-third of total fabrication demand. This is a huge increase when we consider...

At over 2,300 pages, the Dodd Frank Act is the longest and most complicated bill ever passed by the US legislature. It was supposed to end “too big to fail” and “bailouts,” and to “promote financial stability.” But Dodd-Frank’s “orderly liquidation authority” has...

Once again we get to continue along this discussion of how the price of silver is truly formed in the market as we see it today. The reason for that is so that you can have as a resource the ability to go to a whole set of information that shows you what’s really...

A short update on the silver situation is shown in the daily price chart below. After a short ride along the upper portion of our Bollinger Band setup, silver has come off it to approach its 20-day moving average. Trends tend to follow the channel formed by the...

The US Treasury’s recent announcement that the government will reach the debt ceiling on November 3 means Congress will soon be debating raising the government’s borrowing limit again. Any delay in, or opposition to, raising the debt ceiling will inevitably be met...

The collapse of the Western Financial System already occurred years ago. Even though the top banks continue to behave as if they are solvent institutions with functioning balance sheets, they are totally bankrupt without Fed & Central Bank intervention.

On December 16th, 1773 the Sons of Liberty in Boston, in protest of the Tea Act, destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company, in a political protest referred to as the Boston Tea Party.

The financial sector has pulled back nicely during the market sell off in August, setting up a nice opportunity for the contrarian player. The masses are fixating on whether or not the Fed will raise interest rates by a minuscule 0.25%. While they fixate on this...

Last time I wrote, I was expecting a large drop in the stock market. Early onin my blog, I stated that I believed I was wrong and that the BIG drop would not occur until late October/early November. I stated that the seven week low could occur as early as October...

The stories range from outright denial, to insistence that we are experiencing an outright physical shortage of silver. The following is an edited excerpt from our recent Q&A interview with Ted Butler, where we asked him this series of questions. Do you see an...

Silverbugs have been getting worked up this month about the possibility of a new bull market in their favorite white metal, due to its sharp rally in the early days of the month. However, as we will see in this update, the long-term charts and latest COTs reveal...

Companies like Walmart and McDonalds's have made their investors rich by squeezing costs and holding down prices. But it turns out that low costs means low wages, and as this model spread it contributed to the now-impossible-to-ignore migration of income and wealth...

Any seasoned silver investor will tell you that silver mining stocks can leverage the price of silver. Pick the right company and it will leverage the silver price increase multiple times. But which ones should you choose to invest in? The potential leverage can...

The good news is: New lows remained at non threatening levels last week. The negatives: Monday will be the 28th anniversary of the October 19, 1987 crash.

Current investing model favors bonds over equities, therefore, investors should overweigh their portfolios with bonds over stocks for safety. Cash is also a position for those who are un-invested or under invested until this model favors equities again.

Silver looks like it has bottomed and will move substantially higher. Why? Long-Term – 25+ years: Examine the silver to gold ratio since 1990. The ratio is currently low and appears to have bottomed. Silver bottoms when the ratio bottoms. Expect a multi-year...

Gold is money, admittedly not often circulating as such today. Fiat currencies issued by governments have driven gold out of circulation. But where does this leave silver?

It was in October 1993 when I first visited China to sniff out investment opportunities. At the time, the Asian country was still going through an economic and existential transition that had been set off by the Tiananmen Square protests four years earlier. Along...

We started this series “shallow and wide” on the subject of what’s really determining the silver price… What are the factors, the most influential factors right now? Last week we covered high-frequency trading and algorithm trading in association with the future’s...

The press is giving too much credence to the effect an interest rate hike would have on the markets -- and on the financial sector. First of all, the fact that the Fed has been debating whether or not to raise rates by a paltry meaningless 0.25 basis points speaks...

Our technical model is showing the completion of a downside capitulation signal for silver prices, indicating that a significant long term bottom is either already in place or will be finalized over the next several weeks across the silver market.

This flying porker begs to be shorted, but we’ll need to be careful about how we do it, since it has the teeth and disposition of a great white shark. This is true for technical reasons as well, since the current, short-squeeze rally is coming off a low that did not...

Historic. Landmark. Groundbreaking. Revolutionary. These are among many of the words that have been used lately to describe the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Trade Pact, which was finally signed in Atlanta last Monday by 12 participating Pacific Rim nations.

My analysis suggests silver prices will make a substantial bottom sometime in 2016, and from that bottom prices could ascend to virtually unthinkable levels. In this exclusive article, I will cover short, intermediate and long-term price targets along with my...

The heart of the economic disorder is a world financial system that has gone rogue. Global banks now make profits to a extraordinary degree from doing business with each other. As a result, banking's power to create money out of nothing has been taken to a whole new...

I started Pento Portfolio Strategies three years ago with the knowledge that the unprecedented level of fiat credit creation had rendered the globe debt disabled and would result in mass global sovereign default. As a consequence, there would be wild swings between...

The gold price moved up $18. However, the silver price moved up 60 cents, which is a much bigger percentage. The silver community is getting pretty excited. A market trend will often begin when a small number of traders learn something new. As they begin buying (or...

The following is an edited excerpt from our recent Q&A interview with Ted Butler. It’s the even worse than the fox guarding the henhouse. It’s more like rabid raccoons. In this section continue the discussion of HFT, while answering the question of how the...

It turns out that the world of ZIRP/NIRP isn't the banking paradise that some thought it would be. See Why The Big Banks Want Higher Interest Rates. Whether the problem is with low interest rates themselves or the fact that rates still aren't low enough to ignite a...

The late September low appears to have been a successful retest of the August low. By that I mean it is unlikely the major averages will fall below the August and September lows any time soon. The major averages have been up 7% - 8% in the past 2 weeks so the...

Our equity/bond model - This long term reliable investing model provides investors with simple decision making in the markets: -When the model favors stocks, investors should overweigh in equities for maximum growth. -When the model favors bonds, investors should...

Once upon a time in the good old days, before QE changed everything, any signs of strength from copper could be construed as a sign that the economy was on the mend. After QE, this story came to an end…and a new reality came into play. The Fed manipulated the...

Hard times have once again befallen Deutsche Bank, which played a key role in blowing the global mortgage bubble that popped eight years ago. On Wednesday, the bank announced a $7 billion loss for Q3 and a dividend cut, sending shares plummeting by 6% on the NYSE...

Debt is at the root of money creation in this debt-based monetary system. In fact, as the name suggests, money is debt in this system. Historically, instead of debt as money, there would have been gold or silver.